We are thrilled to announce our participation in Sydney Contemporary 2025 featuring new works by represented artists Mirra Whale and Steve Lopes.
Mirra Whale artworks explore the formal and conceptual limits of the genre of still life. Within her practice Mirra utlises everyday household objects and presents them from another angle.
Mirra Whale has been a finalist of several art prizes including the Archibald Prize, Kedumba Drawing Award, Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Salon Des Refuses, Portia Geach Portrait Prize, AME Bale Art Prize, Hornsby Art Prize, Mortimore Art Prize and the Manning Gallery Prize.
In 2024 Mirra Whale was the winner of the Redland Art Prize in Queensland.
Steve Lopes is a painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscape. He often works en plein air, painting vignettes of a place which are used as references for large-scale studio works.
While his landscapes are often a representation of what he saw, the figures are often imagined personalities or placed into the composition after the fact. He often depicts isolated figures to emphasize the displacement of the human figure within the world.
Steve Lopes' works have been acquired in collections such as the National Art Gallery of Australia, Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, BHP Billiton Art Collection and the Time Warner Collection in New York.
Sydney Contemporary is showing from 11-14th September 2025 at Carriageworks in Sydney.